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Professional pickpockets as marketers

Romania has a very high rate of phone theft, but most people “don’t think it could happen to them” (of course).

To counter that, Vodafone hired professional pickpockets to quietly slip promotional flyers into the pockets, bags and purses of people on the street, to show how easily their phone could have been stolen.  Very creative, and quite brilliant!

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